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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 04/10/2026

A product like this has no pro-social function, and it doesn't need to be reliable. The existence of the tech creates plausible deniability to violate rights even when there is extensive evidence that it is wrong. This is the system working as intended.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

sometimes I get bored and cancel myself on Threads by saying whatever the fuck

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's OK to think that the people who voted for this are un-American.

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fern 🏵 @fernalicious.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm from Minnesota and I think I'm from the PNW, so it may just not be that good for Midwest and West Coast accents

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like this must have been done at some point, response poems are a storied tradition, but anyway I wrote "Margaret, Bringing Fresh Flowers" today and thought I'd share

Uncle Gerard, do you remember how,
when I was a kid, you found me crying
and I told you it didn't seem fair how all the nice leaves
had to die in the winter when I loved them so much;
and you told me, well, it gets worse from here,
and besides, it's not really the leaves,
you're a smart kid, they'll be back next spring,
but in the meantime you're right of course,
all kinds of things are going to die
and die and die and die and die and die,
your whole life, and it doesn't get easier,
it gets harder, because eventually you realize
all those dead hands go down pointing a finger at you,
and that's actually why you're sad, see,
because in a sense you're next,
even if it takes a while for next to get here?
And do you remember
how I said, Jesus Uncle Gerry,
can't a person be sad for a tree sometimes,
just sad about a tree?
Well, anyway,
you were probably right,
and you know this already,
because I tell you this every time I come here
but I suspect it's harder to remember things
where you are now
so I'm telling you again,
just in case.

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fern 🏵 @fernalicious.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

View from the cheese drawer in the fridge when I get hungry at 2am

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The infanticide administration.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The obsession with making elections a referendum on Hassan Piker reminds me of this

An Onion poll on "Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character?"
Columbine 0%
Scaramouche 0%
Pulcinella 0%
Pantalone 0%
il Dottore: 0%
Don't know: 100%

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the most annoying thing about the What We Should Have Done With COVID discourse is that the actual viable option to accept more health risk in exchange for less disruption was not to rawdog the plague, it was to push the vaccine wide earlier with worse trial data

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

i hate that AI companies have muddied the word "generative" Generative art: procedural art created using a *system of mathematical rules designed intentionally* by the artist. AI-generated: created by automated systems (LLMs) using opaque, extractive processes unknown to both the user and viewer.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.

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Chip Chantry @chipchantry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“Sovereign citizen. Sovereign citizen. Sovereign citizen. Watch out- Sovereign citizen.” -me, pushing to the front of the line at Dairy Queen

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026

they take this more seriously than police shootings

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Governors should threaten to withhold federal taxes. Is that legal? Probably not. Is it realistic? Who knows. IT DOESN'T MATTER. There is political value in taking a stand and drawing a moral line. Make a spectacle of it. Fight. Force Republicans to publicly defend their monstrous behavior.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026

literally impeach him just for this

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.

The sword situation
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement. I called my brother to check if there were any developments with respect to his sword and he said he could sort of make it out way up there if he squinted. I don’t know why everyone’s losing it over these swords he said. Then I called my congresswoman to ask yet again if there were any plans to tackle the sword situation as it were and the girl who answered said it was the official position of the office that the swords do not exist except in some rare foreign cases. I could tell she was reading from a script. Can you let her know that they most certainly do I said and she said that she would pass the message along and hung up. Outside some landscapers were at work trimming the neighbor’s hedges. Each of them with a gleaming blade perched inches from the back of their necks. Why didn’t they just grab it at this stage I thought. Why didn’t they just reach right up and grab it.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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fern 🏵 @fernalicious.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

some wonks think that being really good at data analysis makes them really good at everything, including talking to the people the data affects. they apparently resent seeing how they are seen lol

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just a reminder that the guy they put in charge in Minnesota is now speaking at white supremacist conferences in Europe.

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The Haunted Drive-in @haunteddrivein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just learned that the soundtrack for Nolan’s ODYSSEY doesn’t include The Soggy Bottom Boys. Shameful.

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Tucker Jones @tuckerjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm watching in germany. The German commentators kept quiet for nearly the whole thing until suddenly the shot widened and we just hear with a German accent, "Oh, Miss Piggy"

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Madonna and Bieber getting completely upstaged by Shakira and BTS is a good distillation of the dawning Century of American Humiliation

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15/07/2026

Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026

Left: Venus. Centre: Titan. Right: Earth.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Serial killers.

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fern 🏵 @fernalicious.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ice agents kill with impunity, and turnabout is entirely fair play. make their lives fearful and short

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ICE killed a random guy today.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 13/07/2026

SEEING A CISHET PERSON MAKE A JOKE ABOUT LINDSAY GRAHAM’S SEX LIFE: (closing my eyes and shaking my head slowly) hmm. interesting SEEING A GAY PERSON SAY THE EXACT SAME SENTENCE: (snapping my fingers and waggling my ass theatrically) you said it sister

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

alright hear me out

The proof of life photo from Mitch McConnell and his wife with an arm drawn to illustrate how she’s operating him like a puppet

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

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